Cato Institute says the expiration of FISA will have little effect…


	Cato Institute says the expiration of FISA will have little effect…

ratilfar

2-17-2008 11:10 AM

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law, lawbreaking, cato, fisa, constitution, corruption, telecomns, technology

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2-18-2008 7:39 AM

schreibe

Amazing....Bushco never gives up!

2-18-2008 8:53 AM

ratilfar

And why should they, every time they yell "TERROR" the Congress jumps and gives them what they want.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1eecbcbc-3b65-4f5d-aab5-7a7e0248350a/46C9C229-F2A8-4CB4-BB27-21E0E28D212B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/17/cato-institute-says-the-expiration-of-fisa-will-have-little-effect/" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/17/cato-institute-says-the-expiration-of-fisa-will-have-little-effect/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.crooksandliars.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/17/cato-institute-says-the-expiration-of-fisa-will-have-little-effect/"><P>Bush keeps ramping up the fear, but even the CATO institute isn’t buying <SPAN>his usual </SPAN><A href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/02/14/congress-ignores-fear-mongering-world-doesnt-end/">brand of fear-mongering</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/17/cato-institute-says-the-expiration-of-fisa-will-have-little-effect/"><P>The Bush administration <EM>can</EM> initiate new terrorist monitoring activities after the PAA expires. It just has to get a FISA warrant, the same way it did in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Indeed, Bush himself <A target="_blank" href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/14/fisa_101/index.html">praised</A> the changes Congress made to FISA in the wake of the September 11 attacks, noting that they “will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including e-mails, the Internet, and cell phones” and makes the intelligences community “able to better meet the technological challenges posed by this proliferation of communications technology.” If we were able to get by with those provisions for nearly six years, surely we’ll be OK living under them again for a couple of week.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46C9C229-F2A8-4CB4-BB27-21E0E28D212B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>